MIAMI — A glance inside the numbers from Bam Adebayo’s 83-point recreation for the Miami Heat on Tuesday evening, the second-highest complete in NBA historical past:
83 factors
Start with the apparent one. Only Wilt Chamberlain together with his 100-point recreation is now forward of Adebayo on the NBA single-game record.
Kobe Bryant — Adebayo’s idol — had the No. 2 spot, with 81 factors.
“It speaks volumes for his hard work,” Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo stated. ”I do know Bam. He works his butt off each single day. He by no means cheats the recreation. Seeing a man like him doing one thing like that is unimaginable.”
(*83*) 40-40 membership
Adebayo is the first participant in the NBA’s play-by-play period — courting again to the begin of the 1996-97 season — to have 40 factors in each halves of a recreation.
He had 43 factors in the first, 40 in the second.
(*83*) closest anybody has come to that in the final 30 years is Luka Doncic, who had 41 in the first and 32 in the second for Dallas towards Atlanta on Jan. 26, 2024.
Chamberlain is the solely different 40-40 member — barely. He had 41 in the first half of his 100-point recreation, then 59 extra after halftime.
(*83*) free throws
Adebayo made 36 free throws and took 43, each of that are NBA single-game records.
Chamberlain made 28 on the evening that he scored 100, March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania for Philadelphia towards New York. Utah’s Adrian Dantley additionally made 28 free throws, in Las Vegas, towards Houston on Jan. 4, 1984.
(*83*) document without spending a dime throws tried was 39, performed twice, each instances by Dwight Howard. He took that many for Orlando towards Golden State on Jan. 12, 2012 — then did it once more for the Los Angeles Lakers, towards Orlando, on March 12, 2013.
(*83*) 3-pointers
Adebayo tried 22 3-pointers, making him the seventh participant in NBA historical past to strive that many in a recreation.
(*83*) others with at the least that many: James Harden has performed it 4 instances and Stephen Curry twice, whereas Damian Lillard, Marcus Smart, J.R. Smith and Klay Thompson all did it as soon as. Thompson has the document for makes an attempt in a recreation with 24, performed for Golden State on Oct. 29, 2018, towards Chicago.
Thompson had a document 14 made 3s that evening as nicely.
For perspective, Adebayo averaged — averaged! — 15 3-point makes an attempt per season over his first seven years in the league.
43 photographs
Adebayo’s 43 subject objective makes an attempt wasn’t even a season-high in the NBA. Cade Cunningham took 45 in a recreation for Detroit on Nov. 10.
Scoring common
In one evening, Adebayo’s common went from 18.9 to twenty.0 factors per recreation.
Heat records
Among the many Heat regular-season records that Adebayo set on Tuesday evening:
— Most factors in 1 / 4 (31, earlier was LeBron James with 25).
— Most factors in a primary half (43, earlier was 31 by James, Dwyane Wade and Sherman Douglas).
— Most factors in a second half (40, earlier was 37 by James).
— Most photographs in a recreation (43, earlier was 39 by Wade).
— Most 3-point makes an attempt in a recreation (22, earlier mark was 17, performed on six events).
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